As much as the lack of “affordable housing” is addressed in the Opinion section of The Star, no one has yet defined what affordable housing is. Of course, to a certain degree the price of affordable housing is relative. Affordable housing is an issue that depends on one’s financial status in life.

According to statistical data, Ventura County residents have median household incomes of about $80,000 per year. The median/average sale price of a Ventura County home is about $600,000. According to Zillow, a household with an $80,000 yearly income can "reasonably afford" a $300,000 home.

So with a $300,000 gap between what the median household can afford and the selling price of Ventura County homes, there definitely is an affordable housing problem for the working middle class, not to mention low-income wage earners and the unemployed.

How this housing problem will be solved in Ventura and California remains to be seen. But my guess is the taxpayers of Ventura County and California are going to be a big part of the attempted solution, as they always are.

Jim Connery, Ventura

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